Okay so I've been lurking here for months and figured I'd finally post since this community honestly helped me get through this thing. I took the AMS exam back in March, failed by like 8 points, and was pretty devastated. Went back to basics, restructured my whole approach, and passed last week with a 78. Not a perfect score but I'll absolutely take it.
The biggest game-changer for me was actually doing timed practice under real conditions. I'd been reading through my study guide like a textbook and not really testing myself. Once I started grinding through an AMS practice test every other day and reviewing every single wrong answer, my scores started climbing. Topics that killed me the first time — revenue management principles and the hotel distribution landscape — finally clicked when I stopped just reading and started actually applying.
For anyone mid-prep, what's your biggest sticking point right now? Happy to share the specific exam tips that helped me most, especially around the financial concepts section which I think catches a lot of people off guard.